Reel seat assembly



April 3, 1937. w. E EbwARDg 2,076,629

REEL SEAT AS SEMBLY Filed June 22, 1935- Patented Apr. 13, 1937 REEL SEAT ASSEMBLY William E. Edwards, Mount Carmel, Conn, as-

signor to The a corporation Horton Manufacturing Company, of Connecticut Application June 22, 1935, Serial No. 27,982

17 Claims.

My invention relates to reel seat assemblies.

It has among its objects to provide an improved reel seat assembly adapted to hold securely reels of widely varied structure and size.

A further object of my invention is to provide such a reel seat assembly having improved means engaging the base of the reel and cooperating therewith in an improved manner to prevent slipping of the latter. Still further objects of my invention are to provide an improved and simplified reel seat structure whereby the structure of the same is substantially improved and one wherein at the same time that the seat is adapted to use with a wide variety of reels, it is also made possible to eliminate the need forthe longitudinal reel base engaging ribs heretofore provided on such seats. Another object of my invention is to provide an improved reel seat assembly including such an improved seat and especially adapted to cooperate with a rocking sleeve of the construction described and claimed in my co-pending application Serial No. 24,573,

to clamp securely reels of widely varying types and sizes into position .on the seat. These and 5 other objects and advantages of my improved construction will, however, hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawing I have shown for purposes of illustration certain embodiments which my invention may assume in practice.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of my improved reel assembly, with a reel mounted thereon;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the assembly, with 5 a larger reel than shown in Figure 1, a portion of the reel being broken away to facilitate illustration;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the reel assembly, reel being removed therefrom;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4-4 of Fig. 1, and I Fig. 5 is a detail plan view of a modified form of seat.

In the construction shown in Figures 1-4, it 45 will be noted that the structure is generally similar to that described in my previous application mentioned, including a reel seat or barrel I carrying front and rear grips 2 and 3 and having a reel 4 clamped by its base 5 on the reel seat by a rocking socket member or clamping sleeve 6 operated by a rotatable actuating nut 1 when one end of the base is disposed in a socket 8 and the other under the sleeve 6; the seat I here- 55 in being of an improved construction whereby it the t is made possible not. only heretofore provided on the'reel (Cl. 43- 22l cooperates with the-base 5 in ner as hereinafter described.

an improved man- Referring more particularly to the seat I, it

will be noted that while it is provided at the front end with a usual socket 8 adapted to receive one end of the reel base usually provided on the seat of the socket 8 are omitted 5, the parallel ribs 1 along the edges and an improved frictional seating surface provided. Herein this new seating surface, generally indicated at 9,

is of the width of the socket 8 and extends in under the same and lengthwise of the seat I throughout the length of the reel base intended to cooperate therewith. Herein, the seat 9 is roughened in such rality of recesses closely grouped milled lines or ing longitudinallyof the I, preferably with an unmilled the same and the grooves in the threaded portion rotatable. the radius of the manner as to create a pluand comprises a series of fine,

grooves l0 extend upper surface of the seat portion l I between extending just to [Z on which the nut l is Thus, it will be observed that since concave under surface of reel base 5 is smaller than the radius of the reel seat |,'the milled out grooves to must engage the inner or lower side edgecorners of the base in such manner as even further to eliminate likelihood of slipping of the base 5 clamped in position and nut I. The engagement when the same is by the rocking member 6 of the side edges of the base with certain of the grooves in one of the end sockets is this instance it will shown in Figure 4, and in be observed that the side edges of the base would engage other grooves of the group in a manner placement of the base if the somewhat wider or somewhat shown in Figure 4.

to prevent lateral disbase were either narrower than as As a result of my improved construction, it

gitudinal ribs eliminate the lonseat, but all need for providing a reel base to cooperate therewith which has its base of just such width that it fits snugly between the ribs,

as has heretofore been necessary in order to make the ribs effective as securing means.

the contrary, in the present On construction, the

width of the reel base within certain limits is immaterial, since it is bound to engage at its side edges in one or another of the grooves In in the milled out portion 9. Further, it will be evident that the milled portion 9 as shown herein will exert a gripping effect irrespective of the length of the reel base limits, or whether the same is 5 within certain bowed upward 'be- V tween its ends, or lies flat at its edges throughout its length on the reel seat. For example, in Figure 2 the base of the reel is longer than in the assembly shown in Figure 1. In fact, with this improved construction it is made possible to tighten securely on the reel seat almost every kind of reel on the market irrespective of varia- .rod carrying the same.

tions in size and conformation of all in such manner as substantially to increase the range of usefulness of the assembly and the be understood that where unusually large sizes of reel bases are to be accommodated, as, for example, in certain salt water reels, the reel seat may also be made in different sizes, although,

due to my improved constructionpthe number of such sizes required is materially reduced.

In Figure 5, I have illustrated amodified con struction of reel seat whichmay be used if de-- sired. Here, it will be noted that, while the grooved portion9is of the same construction as v that heretofore described, the grooves ,lfljextend beyond and into the threaded .portion 12.

1- though such a construction is not preferred, it obviously will .functiongenerally similarly to that previously described, while the gripping action therein will beprovided clear out to the ends of the grooves l0. Ordinarily, however, it will be understood that the reelbases are of suchlength asto be disposable within the limits of the milled lines shown in Figure 3. a a 'It will be understood from the foregoing description thatby shown in Fig.4,iso that the-base will be effectively engaged with .certainof the'ifine grooves on 50,

the barreli'surface.

Although I have herein shown my improved seat as'used in connectionwith a clamping means of the construction describedand claimed in my co-pending application, and the same is especially adapted to use in connection therewith,-it will be understood that my improved seatis notlimited to .such use but maybe used in connection with other types of clamping means.-

7 While I have in this application specifically described certain forms whichmy invention may assume in practice, it will be theseforms are shown for pur tion and that the invention may be modified. and embodied in other forms without :departing from its spiritorthe scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new and desire :to secure by Letters Patent is: v

1. In a reel seat assembly, a reel seat carrying reel base securing means, and frictional seat forming means having a roughenedsurface engageable with a reel base from beneath for inhibiting slipping thereof.

' 2. In a reel seat assembly, a member carrying reel'base securing means, and a milled surface on said member comprising understood that ms of illustrathe reel base, 7

Here, of course, it will my-invention I provide a;fish-y' ing rod providedwith a barrel having reel base holding means for attaching any of a number of" a plurality of fineeral. location on the barrel to inhibit'displacement "thereof.

4..In a'fishing rod, a barrel having reel base holding means including a cooperating'recessed peripheral surface on the barrel body within the confines of the reel supporting surface thereof for engagingany of a number of reel bases of -idiiferent widths. and holding the same against lateral displacement in'substantially, the same peripheral location on the barrel.

5. 1InL-a fishingrod, a barrel having reel base holdingmeans for attaching any of a number of reel bases of different widths on the barrel with their median lines centered on approximately the same longitudinal'peripheral line of thebarrel,

said means including a roughened peripheral reel supporting surface on the barrel. body engageable with the reel bases from beneath. a

6..In a fishing rod, a barrel having reel base holding means for attaching any of a number of reel bases of different widths in substantiallylthe same peripheral location on the barrel, said means including a peripheralflreel supporting surface having :a plurality of closely spaced longitudinal indentations on the barrel body by means of which said bases and'said barrel ,engage'jeach other within the confines of thebarrelv body,'and' also including a socket forming member cooperating with said barrel, said member and barrel forming in conjunction a reel base receiving sock+ et extending laterally past the side edges of the several reel bases.

7. In a reel seat assembly for fishing rods, a barrel having an outer peripheral surface provid ed with closely spaced. longitudinal groovesfor supporting a reel base, a reel base overlying said surface, and cooperatingclamping means, said base having longitudinalportionsformed to interengage within the grooves of said barrel sure 7 face to prevent lateral shifting of the. basewhen clamped.

8. In a reel seat assembly forfishing rods, a'

barrel having an outer peripheral'surface for re ceiving a reel base, and a reel base overlying said surface, said barrel and base formed to inter engagewithin the confinesof said barrel surface to prevent lateral shifting of the base, said basev having sharpened side edges and said barrel having longitudinal grooves receiving the inner cor ners only of said side edges. V

9. In a reel seat assembly for fishing rods, a barrel having reel base holding means for attaching any of a number of widths in substantially the tionon the barrel, said same peripheral locameans including a pcripheralsurface on the barrelihaving a lateral reel bases of different dimension approximating that of the widest. base and presenting a multiplicity of fine closely asj sociated longitudinal grooves within the confines of the barrel body.

10. In a fishing rod, a barrel and a surrounding sleevelike element forming in conjunction a curved socket for receiving the ends of reel bases of different widths, said barrel having a roughened surface within said socket adapted to engage from beneath and grip each of the several reel bases, said socket being of a lateral dimension substantially greater than that of the widest base.

11. In a reel seat assembly for fishing rods, a barrel having an outer peripheral reel base supporting surface provided with closely spaced longitudinal surface indentations, and a reel base having a concave under surface of less radius than the barrel, the indentations of said barrel interengaging with said base within the confines of said supporting surface along the side margins of the base to prevent lateral displacement of the base.

; 12. A fishing rod provided with areel seat having a socket forming means at one end of said seat and a frictional reel base supporting surface portion on the bottom of the socket formed thereby and means forming indentations within the o outermost limits of the periphery of said surface portion, said surface portion and said indentation forming means being engageable frictionally with a reel base seated in said socket irrespective of variations in the width of said base.

13. A fishing rod provided with a reel seat having a socket forming means at one end of said seat and a frictional surface portion in said socket means on the bottom of the socket engageable frictionally with a reel base seated in the latter irrespective of variations in the width of said base, said frictional surface portion comprising a plurality of friction surfaces selectively engageable with said base.

14. In a reel seat assembly for fishing rods, a reel support including a barrel-like member having socket means engageable with one end of a reel base and clamping means engageable with the other end thereof, said socket means and said clamping means adapted to receive any of a number of reel bases of different widths centered approximately on a predetermined longitudinal peripheral line of said member, and means comprising series of closely set longitudinal grooves on said member at named line engageable with the side edge portions of reel bases of different Widths to prevent lateral displacement thereof.

the respective sides of said last 15. A reel seat structure for fishing rods adapted to receive and clamp reel bases of different sizes and shapes, said structure including a barrel having a partly cylindrical reel base seating portion adapted to receive in substantially the same peripheral location on the barrel reel bases of different width, said seating portion being provided With a plurality of recessed means to engage the inner and clear the outer side edge portions of arcuate reel base portions of different Widths with their median lines in approximately the same location with respect to the barrel in order to prevent lateral shifting of the reel base relatively to said seating portion, and means cooperating with said seating portion for securing the reel base on said seating portion in engagement with said recessed means.

16. A reel seat structure ed to receive and clamp reel bases of different sizes and shapes, said structure including a barrel having a partly cylindrical reel base seating portion provided with a plurality of fine longitudinal grooves in its outer surface in immediate adjacency to each other, certain of said grooves being located toreceive the inner side edges of a reel base portion of predetermined width having a concave under surface of less radius than said seating portion, and others of said grooves being located to engage the inner side edges of similar bases occupying substantially the same location on the barrel but which are wider or narrower than the first mentioned base, and means for clamping the reel base on said seating portion.

17. In a reel seat assembly, a barrel, a member overlying the barrel and forming in conjunction with a portion of the periphery thereof a socket adapted to receive reel bases of different widths, said socket continuing laterally past the sides of any of said bases to provide clearance therefor, means substantially within the confines of the barrel surface for engaging any of said bases to prevent lateral movement thereof in said socket, and means for clamping the reel base in said socket and in pressure engagement with said base engaging means.

WILLIAM E. EDWARDS.

for fishing rods adapt- 

